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When did the fans learn that pro wrestling was fake?
Posted on 5/9/25 at 10:09 am
Posted on 5/9/25 at 10:09 am
I've watched YT videos from the 70s/80s, and the fans were near riots.
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Posted on 5/9/25 at 10:12 am to BuckI
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I've watched YT videos from the 70s/80s, and the fans were near riots.
I kinda grew out of wrestling but when I did watch, I'd say around the early teen years (early to mid 2000's) is when I really started to notice the punches and things of that nature weren't real. Maybe it was the rise of HD tv that really showed some of the fake stuff in a manner where your eyeballs could actually perceive it. I figured out watching edge conchairto people would actually kill folks in real life so it just couldn't be true. Granted as I got even older, my definition of "fake" kinda changed too. It is 100% scripted but the beating those guys take physically is absolutely real. You can't fake gravity.
This post was edited on 5/9/25 at 10:15 am
Posted on 5/9/25 at 10:14 am to JiminyCricket
Those mid 80’s Mid South and NWA crowds were electric.
Posted on 5/9/25 at 10:16 am to BuckI
I think I was around 6 when I realized you could not punch someone 8 times in their face and not draw blood or cause a bruise.
Posted on 5/9/25 at 10:23 am to BuckI
Young me was in tears watching the NWO destroy Macho Man that one night. I thought they were going to kill him.
Posted on 5/9/25 at 10:23 am to BuckI
Wrestling isn’t fake, it’s worked. Big distinction. It’s never been a legitimate “competitive sport,” it’s always been entertainment, and while I think Vince McMahon is one of the most vile pieces of flotsam and jetsam ever born of a woman, him admitting that was something that should have been done 50 years earlier. Getting rid of kayfabe didn’t stop people from watching.
Posted on 5/9/25 at 10:35 am to InkStainedWretch
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him admitting that was something that should have been done 50 years earlier.
Why do you say this? Genuinely curious.
This post was edited on 5/9/25 at 10:37 am
Posted on 5/9/25 at 10:37 am to Allthatfades
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Those mid 80’s Mid South and NWA crowds were electric.
During a match at the Centroplex in downtown BR in the early 1980’s, a guy with a ringside seat took his metal chair, folded it flat, and launched it at Skandar Akbar. Akbar was seated at the moment the chair hit him squarely at the base of the back of his neck. It knocked him forward and he was on all fours for a minute as he tried to regain his bearings.
Police escorted the guy out but he returned later in the card, much to the delight of the crowd.
Posted on 5/9/25 at 10:44 am to BuckI
I was born in ‘83 and got sucked in around the time of wrestlemania 4. I had a friend who was also big into it and his dad told us it was fake. He used the main event of Wrestlemania 7 between hulk and slaughter to show us. He slowed it down to where we could see hogan cutting his head with a razor blade and then Dave Hebner searching for the blade to pick up after hogan had dropped it on the mat.
Posted on 5/9/25 at 10:47 am to BuckI
Posted on 5/9/25 at 10:48 am to boston vol
Watching it occasionally as an adult has actually made me appreciate it more what those guys are doing out there. It’s incredibly athletic to be able to actually pull those moves in a generally “safe” way.
Wrestling is awesome. Fight me.
Wrestling is awesome. Fight me.
Posted on 5/9/25 at 10:50 am to BuckI
I watched wrestling in the late 60s or early 70s, and I'm pretty sure all the adults knew it was scripted back then. I didn't think so, but I was a kid in the single digits of life.
Posted on 5/9/25 at 10:51 am to BuckI
quote:How many people realize that Deep State Donald Trump is in the Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame?
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Posted on 5/9/25 at 10:55 am to jlovel7
quote:It's more like muscle-bound gymnastics.
Wrestling is awesome. Fight me.
But yeah, I understand the appreciation for the athleticism it takes to pull it off. It's the same appreciation I have for other pro sports, which while not scripted, still just as fixed.
Posted on 5/9/25 at 10:57 am to BuckI
70's Mid-South Wrestling out of Memphis was the greatest.
Dave Brown was awesome. Meteorologist/wrestling commentator.
Dave Brown was awesome. Meteorologist/wrestling commentator.
Posted on 5/9/25 at 10:58 am to BuckI
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When did the fans learn that pro wrestling was fake?
Posted on 5/9/25 at 10:59 am to BuckI
Its still real to me.
Posted on 5/9/25 at 11:03 am to mdomingue
Use to watch all the PPV’s starting in the 80’s. Wrestling, MMA stuff you could get for free with a cable descrambler. Wife kept telling me that it was fake. She changed her tune when I got her in a figure 4 leg lock.
Posted on 5/9/25 at 11:05 am to Radio One
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Why do you say this? Genuinely curious.
I may be out in the ether but I think the old school promoters should have had more faith in their audience.
And the more I think about it I am out in the ether because back in the day they didn’t have the merchandising tie-ins, etc., that Vince had to keep the audience coming.
Posted on 5/9/25 at 11:09 am to jlovel7
A lot of the punches were real. Johnny Valentine and Wahoo McDaniel … two guys whose cornbread wasn’t exactly done in the middle … were known for absolutely beating the living s**t out of each other in their matches. I mean making the slobber fly out of each other’s mouths and then saying to each other “Hit me harder.”
And it’s painfully real to the countless guys who destroyed their bodies and scarred themselves with razor blade cuts … blading is still the thing that makes me SMFH … for the fans’ entertainment. I passed by Dusty Rhodes in a hotel in Atlanta one time. His forehead was unbelievable from all the blade scars.
And it’s painfully real to the countless guys who destroyed their bodies and scarred themselves with razor blade cuts … blading is still the thing that makes me SMFH … for the fans’ entertainment. I passed by Dusty Rhodes in a hotel in Atlanta one time. His forehead was unbelievable from all the blade scars.
This post was edited on 5/9/25 at 11:12 am
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